Kresty's Starship

[kresty]

That's crazy lookin!

Yea, I'm hoping it'll look OK when we're using it.  

The screen will only have an inch or so black border, and then there's the wall (or ceiling), so the light spilling over was almost certainly going to be a problem.  Obvious answer would be to "extend the border" by painting the walls black, but where to stop was tricky.

I was trying to figure out if some sort of transition might work and just slapped some gray shapes into sketchup, not really expecting that they'd look OK.  But after almost no tweaking it seemed like it'd look decent.  Hard part was then taking that pattern on the wall and trying to figure out how to get something balancing it on the ceiling.

Not sure how it'll fit completely with the "starship" theme, but the #1 use of the room is to watch movies, so that is important.  Something squarer or more machine like might be too distracting.

I think our starship owner is ending up more like a Lando than a Han.